Parts Of Speech for Class 6
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Parts Of Speech for Class 6 English Grammar:
Words are divided into different kinds i.e. how they work in every sentences. These are Called parts of speech. There are 8 parts of speech
They are –
(i) Noun
(ii) Pronoun
(iii) Adjective
(iv) Verb
(v) Adverb
(vi) Preposition
(vii) Conjunction
(viii) Interjection
(I) Noun
A noun is a word that indicates the name of a person, thing or a place. For eg:
(i) Hari lives in Kolkata
(2) Mangoes taste sweet
(3) The river Brahmaputra is in Assam
* Noun includes a large number of categories.
They are (i) Common noun (ii) proper noun
(iii) Collective noun (iv) Abstract noun
(v) Countable & uncountable noun.
* Common noun –
Common noun is a noun which defines a class or a kind.
For eg: – Ashoka was a king.
* The name Ashoka refers to a particular king, but the word king defines any other or all kings as a whole, so it is a common noun.
(ii) Ravi is an extraordinary singer
* The word singer defines in the class or kind which includes in the common noun.
(iii) He has a cat named Juni.
** The word cat defines a whole class or a kind of animals i.e. common noun.
Proper noun –
A proper noun defines a particular person, a thing or a place.
For eg: (i) Kolkata is famous for the Hooghly river.
** The word Kolkata defines a particular place i.e. a proper noun.
(ii) I live in India.
** The word India defines a particular place.
(iii) Sita loves mangoes.
** The word Sita defines the name of a particular person.
Collective Noun –
Collective Noun defines a group of person or thing as a whole.
For eg. (i) The mall was full of crowd.
** The word crowd indicates a group of person as a whole.
(ii) Our class consists of many students
** The word class indicates a group of person as a whole.
Abstract Noun –
An abstract Noun defines certain qualities, action or state apart from the object to which it belongs.
For eg: (i) Honesty is the best policy.
** The word Honesty defines a certain quality which indicates abstract noun.
(ii) Laughter is the best medicine
** The word laughter defines a certain action
(iii) Childhood is the best part of our life.
** The word childhood indicates the state which defines abstract Noun.
Countable or Uncountable Noun –
Countable & uncountable nouns defines the name of objects that can be counted. Uncountable nouns define things that cannot be counted. They mainly define abstract things & substances.
Example of countable noun:
(i) Books, pens mangoes, poxes
Example of uncountable noun:
(i) Milk, gold, oil, etc.
(ii) Pronoun:
The pronoun is a world that is used instead of a noun.
Hari is a boy. Hari loves mangoes.
* Hari is a proper noun. Instead of using the word Hari twice we can use the word ‘he’. i.e. Hari is a boy, he loves mangoes.
** Pronouns are of two types:
(i) Personal pronouns
(ii) Impersonal pronouns
Personal pronouns – personal pronouns are ‘I’ ‘we’, ‘you’, ‘he’, ‘she’.
For eg – We love to play
She lives near our house.
Impersonal pronouns – impersonal pronouns is a pronoun that defines the same number, gender person as the stands for.
For eg – Sheela is a good girl. She helps everyone
* Hari loves painting. He paints beautifully.
* The word ‘it’ is also impersonal pronoun.
* It is raining
* It is certainly not yours
(III) Adjective
Adjective is a word used with a noun that describes or project out a person, animal, thing or quantity & quality.
For eg. – Sita is a lazy girl
He gave me two toffees
** The adjective lazy in the first sentence is used with the noun girl.
** In the second sentence the adjective two which quantity is used with the noun toffee.
Few examples of adjectives are
* Kolkata is a big city
* My teacher is an honest man
* I am afraid of dogs
(iv) Verb.
A verb is a word that defines the action or tells us something about a person or a thing.
For eg. – (i) He is laughing
(ii) She is painting
In the above sentences the verb ‘laughing’, ‘painting’ denotes what the person is doing.
For eg. – Ram is being called
The window is broken
In the above sentences the verb ‘called’ & ‘broken’ are being done to the person.
* Verbs are of two types. They are ‘transitive & intransitive verbs.
(V) Adverb.
An adverb is a word that modifies the action or the meaning of the adjective, or verb
For eg – (1) Sunil works fast
(2) The mangoes are very sour
(3) Anil speaks quite fluently
* In the given sentences no. 1 (Fast) Shows how the person walks, i.e. it describes or modifies the verb ‘walk’
* In the sentence no 2. (Very) describes how much, or to which degree the mangoes are sour i.e. very modifies the adjectives sour.
* Similarly in the 3rd sentence (Quite) defines to what extent Anil can speak fluently.
(vi) Preposition
(vii) Conjunction.
* A conjunction is a word that joins two sentences or words together.
For eg: (i) My grandmother made the garden And I planted the flowers.
(ii) Hari and Ram come to school together
(iii) She must read or she will fail.
(iv) Ten and ten makes twenty.
* In the above sentence 1 (and) the conjunction is going two sentences.
* In the sentence 2 (and) the conjunction is joining words.
* In the sentence 3 (or) the conjunction is joining 2 sentences.
* Similarly in sentences 4 (and) the conjunction is joining two words.
(VIII) Interjection
* Interjection is a word that expresses sudden emotion or expressions.
For eg – Hello! how do you do?
Alas! We lost the match
Hurray! We won the match
* Words such as hello, Alas, Hurray etc.